Word watching answers: October 14

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Of or pertaining to the city of Mainz in Germany. Adaptation of the Latin name Moguntia. 1656: “Moguntine — belonging to Moguntia or Mainz, a City in Germany, where Printing was first invented by John Gutenberg anno 1440.”

COCOBAY (c)

A form of leprosy once prevalent in the West Indies. Adaptation of the Twi kokob?. 1873: “One wretched creature, suffering from that particular form of the disease which goes by the African name of ‘cocobay’, asked us for an alms.”

LEAPERESS (a)

A female dancer. From a lady who leaps. Wyclif, 1382: “With a leaperess or tumbler be